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Thursday, July 4, 2013

#624: Mark Dice

A.k.a. John Conner

Mark Dice is an author, “media analyst”, political activist,
founder of the group “The Resistance”, and radically attention seeking extreme,
hardcore religious fundamentalist conspiracy theorist who tends to spew (a lot
of) garbled nonsense about the New World Order and a vast and a largely incompatible array of (mostly Satanic) secret
societies, including (but not limited to) the Illuminati,
the Bilderberg Group,
Skull and Bones,
and Bohemian Grove. His favored technique for spreading the word is phone mobbing (“flood the
airwaves of call-in radio and television shows”), which does not put him and
his followers in a particularly favorable light even with his fellow conspiracy
theorists, but Dice is so far removed from this world that he wouldn’t notice
(a good example is his anger at Charlie Sheen for not promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories)
(if you think Sheen is insane, you’re only proving to Dice that you’re part of
the conspiracy and probably a Satanist).

Dice’s first and most well-known book was a 450-page and
largely incoherent manifesto, “The Resistance Manifesto,” which consists mainly
of unsupported claims, fallacies,
rage, confirmation bias and hearsay – the latter being primarily things he has
apparently heard himself say; since
he trusts himself, this counts as testimony (and since he doesn’t seem to trust
anyone else, such testimony is apparently better evidence than anything anyone
else might say). The main point of the manifesto is that the Illuminati (“many
would say that the illuminati were instrumental in insuring that the 9/11
attacks happened, [and] that they are behind the banking collapse,” which does not constitute evidence even if correct)
manipulate political and financial arenas to erode the Constitution and push
for a socialist New World (why a secret organization would want a socialist
government is anyone’s guess, but you know; socialism is evil, the Illuminati
is evil … and so forth.
They also promote immorality (e.g. here),
selfishness (socialism, you know), materialism, and they purposefully try to
keep the population entertained with television to keep them away from
politics. They also produce child porn and snuff films (Dice allegedly has
evidence that Hunter S. Thompson was a big producer of such), since that’s what
socialists do (keep your children away from them), and were behind Occupy Wall Street protests.
His other book “The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction” consists primarily if not
exclusively of the latter, though Dice does spend some time debunking competing
Illuminati conspiracy theories. In particular, he dislikes Dan Brown’s “Angels
and Demons” (calling for his followers to “disrupt” its premiere) since it
makes the Illuminati idea look like a mere conspiracy theory.
Indeed.

Dice is a regular guest on The Alex Jones Show,
as well as Coast to Coast AM,
and has appeared on various other shows hosted by various delusional conspiracy
theorists, such the Sean Hannity Show,
Glenn Beck,
and Michael Savage.
He is also featured in various 9/11 conspiracy documentaries as a reliable
source, and his loudness, zeal, persistence and tirelessness in promoting his
stuff – making a lot of noise, disrupting events, and pestering people – have
managed to garner him some intermittent national attention also without the
help of said talkshows – for instance when he attempted to ship DVDs to troops
stationed in Iraq to convince them that 9/11 was an inside job (one wonders a
little what he wanted them to do with the information). His calls for boycott
of VeriChip, claiming that it is the “Mark of the Beast”,
received some attention as well, as did his request to have the “Satanic”
Georgia Guidestones removed and his call for a boycott of Starbucks because “the Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a
prostitute.” The socialist Illuminati apparently works in mysterious ways to
undermine our civil liberties, but I am sure Dice can connect the dots and get
whatever he wants.

Diagnosis: Frothing, hyper-active nonsense factory who could
conceivably have done some good if he’d devoted his energy to it (he does have a lot of energy). As it is, his
zealous idealism seem to take him toward mindfuck and nowhere in particular.